i work with words for a living, so I am biased, but I really think we've got to bring back words. really useful if you imbue them with meaning and arrange them properly!
A huge tip of the hat to the NYTimes, the CBC, the BBC, Reuters and others for being absolutely all over this school bombing and piecing together the truth of what happened -- www.reuters.com/world/middle...
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc
Is there a place past gallows humor? Because it feels like we’re entering the realm of phylactery humor, or The Endless Shrieking of the Void humor when we have to decide our emotional response to <waves hands at everything>
To move forward with focus, we must first understand this simple fact: we are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.
The key paragraph from @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social's powerful piece describing the urgency of our present moment. They are right, and we better move quickly.
Gonna need a link bc maybe it'll fix me too.
Having just learned about this monstrosity I may be forced against my own will by my own self to go acquire it.
Christian wanted people to know what immigrant families like hers were going through inside the Dilley detention center, so she gathered dozens of letters and hid them in her jacket. She and others told me and @mckenziefunk.com its becoming harder to speak out www.propublica.org/article/dill...
Do it
A meme of Alysa Liu based on Da Share Zone reading: JUST WALK OUT work social thing movies home class dentist figure skating too fancy weed store cops it your quick friend ships IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!!! Real winners quit You can leave!! Da Gold Zone
I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…
@joshgondelman.bsky.social is this old news to you?
Probably the luckiest break of his presidency. Like passing a stimulus package that’s immediately spent.
The Roberts Court has a clear set of guidelines: the president can do anything he pleases, so long as it does not violate the rights of the owning class.
This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
2026 basically
Challenge "be normal" failed yet again. And not even in a novel or contemporary way - this is like what Mayor Adams would have done in 2022.
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
Drop Site’s Sharif Kouddous recaps “another brutal weekend” in Gaza, w/ Israeli airstrikes & shelling killing at least 17 Palestinians, including 11 on Sun. alone. He noted media coverage has fallen to its lowest level in over 2 & a half years, even as more than 600 Palestinians have been killed...
Since the troll column seems to have worked: The very very very very very very very obvious question is not "why hasn't the left embraced AI" but "why has the right so eagerly embraced a tech product built on theft, sold by fraud, and optimized for abuse and misinformation"
There's one in Lafayette, CO. Come visit me and we can go curling together!
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
Again, all I'm asking is that any Democrat who wants my vote support 1. Reverting Trump's anti-trans policies, 2. Commit to fighting against the future erosion of trans rights, and 3. Support legislation codifying trans rights into law.
Very weird how many of you centrists think that's unreasonable
This has probably been written elsewhere but I'm just now realizing that the primary lesson from the Epstein Files that most billionaires, assholes and pervs will take away is to keep using disappearing chats in signal, which they're all already doing, in order to not get caught.
I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.
You ever stop and think about CASABLANCA? You ever stop and think about "Welcome back to the fight, this time, I know our side will win?" You ever think about a bar full of people defiantly singing La Marseillaise, played by a soundstage full of Jewish refugees? You ever think about CASABLANCA??????
Sorry you're sick but lololololololol that's bonkers
Its still happening?!
CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
This story is so perfect.
